Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Macroom

Planning applications inside the Macroom, Co. Cork settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
592
County
Cork

What the data shows

The planning register for Macroom contains a total of 592 applications, with a 94% grant rate out of 463 applications granted, refused, or part-granted since 1900, consisting of 436 granted, 25 refused, and 2 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 22%, new dwellings at 15%, change of use at 12%, and commercial developments at 10%. Recently lodged applications include 17 in 2023, 32 in 2024, and 24 in 2025, with recent granted examples including permissions for demolishing dis-used sheds, constructing a mixed-use development, upgrading a bus stop area, changing the use of a ground and first floor, converting a derelict dwelling into apartments, and building a new garage.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

94%

of 463 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 1900.

Granted
436
Refused
25
Part granted, part refused
2
No decision recorded
129

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Extension
22%
New dwelling
15%
Change of use
12%
Commercial
10%
Housing estate
10%
Retention
9%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Macroom, 2016–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension100%3595%
New dwelling77%3082%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Appeals to An Bord Pleanála

25%

of 36 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2004–2025.

Permissions refused on appeal
25% of 32
Decision upheld
14
Upheld, conditions varied
13

9 of 36 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Macroom

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.